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The high-stakes lawsuit between adult content producers and tech giant Meta over the alleged downloads of copyright-infringing videos is heating up. In a new filing, Strike 3 claims that a Meta employee allegedly deleted over 9 terabytes of torrented files. Meta notes that this claim, which originates from an unrelated case, is mischaracterized and irrelevant. Regardless of the outcome of these and other ongoing discovery disputes, both parties aim for a trial in 2028.
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From the article, the 9tb are related to the other case, which is about book data.
Meta’s response that this is personal use is actually a pretty good argument. This case mentions something like 157 downloads over the last seven years. That does sound like it could be random employees. Plausibly.
But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network? If it was company directed, wouldn’t they use like a VPN from some regular common VPN provider so that this all looked like some random Joe downloading porn rather than Meta? It does mention they allegedly have some “secret” IPs on AWS, which is also funny to me.
But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network?
Not if the employees in question control the IT infrastructure.
Nah, for a company that size they’d get DMCA notices and legal would shut it down. That’s why my job finally blocked torrenting.
I don’t know any self respecting sysadmin that doesn’t block P2P in their network. Most enterprise firewalls nowadays don’t even require any fancy set up, it’s a toggle switch away. I don’t buy the “oopsie we didn’t know” excuse. They were permitted to torrent by design.
Seriously, ain’t nobody torrenting terabytes of porn at work without approval.
Gee, that’s a lot of homework.
At first I was like “9TB!? That’s like a billion bajillion. It’s like Dr Evil demanding $100 billion in 1969!”
And then I realized I have over 9TB of liberated media on my NAS. I really need to adjust my concept of technology, not to mention the passage of time.
I mean, 911 was only ten years ago, right? Right!?
As of 9-11 I had a gig and a half of liberated media collected from Usenet. I know because I was running out of space on my external hard drive (connected by the printer port) and the bios was limited to two gb.
It’s amazing how far we have come in just, checks notes, 10 years.
I’m surprised you didn’t have a series of backup tape drivers connected by SCSI lol
Oh wait, that’s more like twelve year old technology
12 years ago I was the proud owner of a half a terabyte USB drive.
How 'bout a NSFW tag there buddy.
EDIT: The thumbnail for this post is of a woman wearing only a bra laying seductively on a bed. I realize some users may not see this or have thumbnails active. But some do.
Meta claims this is all normal on the workplace, so it’s your opinion against theirs.
